New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
DID BAKER ATTACK MISS SCHMID11
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION BY CAPT. MURPHY.

He GAVE THE YOUNG LADY'S HANDkEkChiEF ~
HIS sIsTER-TuE LATTER's ESCAPE.
Captain Murphy OF the One-hundredth street taton
arrested Martin Baker last evening at his home IN
nintnst Nnth-ave on suspicion OF being the POI
son who assaulted Marie Ernestine Schmidt, In west
Sixty ynlntllst, on Monday evening. Miss Schmidt
had with her box OF candles THIS the
thief took. Miss Schmidt had put her handkerchief
under the string around this box and this was also keh
Captain Murphy has been diligently WORKING hg".
and day since the assault trying to ma ~na'
became OF the handkerchief. He directed
his eforta chiefly in the neghbohood OF "shantytowh'
on the West Side This place is filled with thieves ana
rough persons OF every kind They are all banded To-
gctherw stand by each other ut all hazarus VIII shei
ter thieves In their miserable novels aud do everything
in their power prevent the police from obtaining any
information. ~
In going through Murphy heard h"s
young girl named Elizabeth Baker had been seen VIII"
handkerchief As handkerchief In Shantyt0wn Is
sort OF curiosity it started the gossips tongues "as
gng and the Captain was able aier Peis''on'
searching to get the history OF the handkerchief lie
found that Martin Baker, the prisoner had given IL 10 s
sister Elizabeth The Captain tried to IND martin BAKER
bnt II was until about $50 r. m yesterday ta1 "'
placcd him In a shanty that might easily serve for do2
house. In sixty-ninth-st An ordinary y-sncd man
coud not stand upright In the only room III INC
house. Baker lived there with mohgre
dog table - chair and a stove Captain Murphy weh'
resistance The presence OF two detectives who STOOD IN
the doorway quietcd him and he went TO the One
huudrcdth Street Station. There he was asked about
the handkerchief. He denied all knowledge OF IL AZ
first but after awhile admitted that he had given hand
kerchicf To his sister.
DETECTIVES Wagner AMI Grosjean sent after the
sister, who lives with her mother In shan,y ht one
d-twclfth-st. and the Boulevard inc u,tc'
tves found the girl with seventeen other persons crowd
into She admitted having the handkerchief ana
said that she would 20 aud get II. she Went up
a ladder To the above and as she d not re-
turn Detective Wagner went after She had jumped
out of the window and fled The detectives brought Mrs
Baker To the station aud her son told her ait"r ios
talk with Captain murphy to 70 home ana ana
came '"' back with it late last evening.
The handkerchief is an inexpensive one with blue
other are the letters NJ r. - the initials OF Miss
schmdrs name Miss Schmidt has n half dozen hand
for the possession of the handkerchief by saying
that he was In the ncighborhood OF sixty-
ninth-st on the evening Of the robbery and heard
direction the sound andsfound woman with police
man who said that she had been assaulted. AS
handkcrchef on tie ground and picked q up.
Baker was seen by several people hanging arouhd sIA
ninths the night of the assault and captain Murphy
believes that he the who seen with hm com
mttcd the assault In "A trunk III Bakers room were d
dozen large forks somc solid aud others plated WIN he
MONOGRAM " W. NJ. engraved on All vi thc'ni p"ns
says his mother made him present OF them when sho
gave him The trunk
Baker is u stout. muscular fellow. about twcnty-one
years old. German. and has worked for man who mas
charge OF number Of bres III West scNcntythlri-st
lie poorly blessed. save his overcoat, which
OF line material lie would not tell where be got the
coat. His reputation Is bad. Two OF his brothers
in sing Sing for the Montague TGp- '.'-
robbery but went west and II hot known until Cap
tain Murphy found him that he had returned
Miss schmidt did not 20 To the police station last even
look Baker. rhe said To Captain Murphy thIt
dd the face Of the man VINO struck her, but
thinks that lie was slender and ialL